Agile Contracts with Work from Home Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,588 5,476 12,252
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.58% 22.10% 27.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.00% 24.65% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,906 4,019 8,864
10th Percentile £385 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £465 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 129 139
10th Percentile £18.73 £35.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £24.58 £46.25 £39.75
Median hourly rate £46.25 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +32.65% +9.50%
75th Percentile £61.63 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.93 £80.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £65.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year -8.02% +29.01% +12.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Agile daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Agile hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 165 (6.38%) Confluence
2 114 (4.40%) Apache
2 114 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (1.62%) CMS
4 38 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 34 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.46%) nginx
7 12 (0.46%) SAS
8 9 (0.35%) CICS
9 6 (0.23%) Appian
9 6 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
11 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.12%) Jadu
Applications
1 58 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (1.39%) MS Visio
4 30 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.39%) Trello
7 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.19%) UserZoom
9 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.12%) Sketch
10 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.039%) InDesign
10 1 (0.039%) InVision
10 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.039%) Simulink
10 1 (0.039%) SPSS
10 1 (0.039%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 35 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
5 9 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.31%) Endur
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.23%) Shopify
9 5 (0.19%) Maximo
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.15%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.12%) Aligne
11 3 (0.12%) Primavera
11 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.12%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 582 (22.49%) Azure
2 545 (21.06%) AWS
3 213 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
4 193 (7.46%) GCP
5 144 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 109 (4.21%) dbt
7 103 (3.98%) Serverless
8 94 (3.63%) SaaS
9 87 (3.36%) Snowflake
10 84 (3.25%) GitHub
11 82 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
12 58 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
12 58 (2.24%) PaaS
13 57 (2.20%) Entra ID
14 56 (2.16%) Amazon S3
15 49 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
16 42 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
17 40 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
18 38 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
19 36 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.70%) Firewall
2 54 (2.09%) DNS
3 38 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.39%) DHCP
5 34 (1.31%) VPN
6 21 (0.81%) HTTP
7 20 (0.77%) SAN
8 16 (0.62%) WAN
9 14 (0.54%) LAN
10 13 (0.50%) Internet
11 11 (0.43%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.35%) Network Security
13 8 (0.31%) 4G
13 8 (0.31%) Wireless
14 7 (0.27%) 3G
14 7 (0.27%) ATM
14 7 (0.27%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.27%) SSL
14 7 (0.27%) VLAN
14 7 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 116 (4.48%) Data Lake
3 107 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
3 107 (4.13%) Power BI
4 100 (3.86%) Apache Ignite
5 98 (3.79%) Apache Arrow
5 98 (3.79%) Dremio
6 87 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
7 69 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
7 69 (2.67%) Relational Database
8 54 (2.09%) NoSQL
9 46 (1.78%) MySQL
10 43 (1.66%) MongoDB
11 40 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 34 (1.31%) Big Data
13 26 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (0.97%) Tableau
15 21 (0.81%) Oracle Database
16 20 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 19 (0.73%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 335 (12.94%) JIRA
2 173 (6.68%) Git
3 107 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 77 (2.98%) GitLab
5 50 (1.93%) Selenium
6 46 (1.78%) Postman
7 41 (1.58%) Cypress.io
8 36 (1.39%) JMeter
9 25 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 22 (0.85%) JUnit
10 22 (0.85%) Visual Studio
11 20 (0.77%) SpecFlow
12 18 (0.70%) TeamCity
13 15 (0.58%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.58%) Maven
13 15 (0.58%) TestRail
13 15 (0.58%) WebDriver
14 12 (0.46%) Appium
14 12 (0.46%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 756 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 688 (26.58%) Finance
3 344 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 273 (10.55%) Banking
5 269 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
6 201 (7.77%) Front Office
7 128 (4.95%) Investment Banking
8 76 (2.94%) Marketing
9 74 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 71 (2.74%) Retail
11 57 (2.20%) Manufacturing
12 55 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 52 (2.01%) Telecoms
14 50 (1.93%) Back Office
15 49 (1.89%) Legal
16 35 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
17 33 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 32 (1.24%) Electronics
19 28 (1.08%) Automotive
20 25 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 531 (20.52%) Developer
2 381 (14.72%) Senior
3 328 (12.67%) Analyst
4 250 (9.66%) Architect
5 243 (9.39%) Project Manager
6 217 (8.38%) Business Analyst
7 211 (8.15%) Lead
8 151 (5.83%) Software Engineer
9 123 (4.75%) Consultant
10 107 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
11 99 (3.83%) Senior Developer
12 88 (3.40%) Delivery Manager
13 87 (3.36%) Java Developer
14 81 (3.13%) Software Developer
15 79 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
16 72 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
16 72 (2.78%) Senior Manager
17 64 (2.47%) Full Stack Developer
18 63 (2.43%) Data Engineer
19 62 (2.40%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (6.92%) .NET
2 170 (6.57%) React
3 125 (4.83%) REST
4 108 (4.17%) XML
5 107 (4.13%) CSS
6 106 (4.10%) HTML
7 104 (4.02%) gRPC
8 103 (3.98%) Protocol Buffers
9 99 (3.83%) AngularJS
10 98 (3.79%) Node.js
11 96 (3.71%) Pandas
12 93 (3.59%) NumPy
12 93 (3.59%) SciPy
13 90 (3.48%) JSON
14 85 (3.28%) Kafka
15 69 (2.67%) RESTful
16 65 (2.51%) Web Services
17 63 (2.43%) Spring
18 53 (2.05%) Spring Boot
19 51 (1.97%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 228 (8.81%) Product Ownership
2 153 (5.91%) Fixed Income
3 135 (5.22%) Derivative
4 130 (5.02%) Equities
5 120 (4.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 116 (4.48%) Hedge funds
7 59 (2.28%) Management Information System
8 52 (2.01%) Public Cloud
9 51 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 51 (1.97%) Mobile App
10 50 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 39 (1.51%) Data Structures
12 36 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
13 35 (1.35%) Onboarding
14 34 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
14 34 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 30 (1.16%) PKI
16 28 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
17 23 (0.89%) Algorithms
17 23 (0.89%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 162 (6.26%) Linux
2 106 (4.10%) Windows
3 44 (1.70%) Unix
4 38 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.24%) Android
6 23 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.89%) zOS
7 17 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.43%) Debian
10 9 (0.35%) VMS
10 9 (0.35%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.23%) Solaris
12 4 (0.15%) CentOS
12 4 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.12%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (23.11%) DevOps
2 511 (19.74%) Scrum
3 378 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
4 373 (14.41%) CI/CD
5 350 (13.52%) Project Management
6 340 (13.14%) Software Engineering
7 321 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 253 (9.78%) Waterfall
9 240 (9.27%) Analytics
10 232 (8.96%) Test Automation
11 216 (8.35%) Project Delivery
12 188 (7.26%) Roadmaps
13 180 (6.96%) User Stories
14 179 (6.92%) Asset Management
14 179 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 178 (6.88%) Microservices
15 178 (6.88%) SDLC
16 164 (6.34%) Migration
17 163 (6.30%) User Experience
18 161 (6.22%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 430 (16.62%) Python
2 346 (13.37%) Java
3 329 (12.71%) SQL
4 323 (12.48%) JavaScript
5 232 (8.96%) TypeScript
6 214 (8.27%) C#
7 117 (4.52%) PowerShell
8 62 (2.40%) Go
9 58 (2.24%) Bicep
10 55 (2.13%) Scala
11 52 (2.01%) Bash
12 39 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 30 (1.16%) Perl
14 26 (1.00%) C++
14 26 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.89%) REXX
15 23 (0.89%) VB
16 22 (0.85%) C
16 22 (0.85%) T-SQL
17 19 (0.73%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 388 (14.99%) Security Cleared
2 319 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 296 (11.44%) Degree
4 93 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 92 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 58 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 49 (1.89%) PMP
8 48 (1.85%) PMI Certification
9 44 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.35%) ISTQB
11 23 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 18 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 16 (0.62%) Azure Certification
14 13 (0.50%) CISSP
15 11 (0.43%) ISEB
15 11 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 10 (0.39%) AWS Certification
16 10 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (6.96%) QA
2 78 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 71 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 63 (2.43%) PMO
5 37 (1.43%) GDPR
6 34 (1.31%) SLA
7 32 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.66%) NIST
9 14 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
10 13 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 11 (0.43%) WCAG
12 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.31%) GxP
14 6 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.23%) MiFID
14 6 (0.23%) NCSC
14 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.19%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.15%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 154 (5.95%) Docker
2 83 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.62%) Time Sharing Option
7 14 (0.54%) NFS
8 8 (0.31%) vSphere
9 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.12%) Firmware
10 3 (0.12%) vCloud
10 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 184 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 111 (4.29%) Terraform
3 81 (3.13%) Ansible
4 44 (1.70%) Grafana
5 23 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.89%) SCCM
6 21 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.77%) Puppet
8 19 (0.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 18 (0.70%) SCOM
10 17 (0.66%) Kibana
10 17 (0.66%) WSUS
11 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.27%) Argo
13 7 (0.27%) Packer
14 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 347 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 171 (6.61%) Oracle
3 126 (4.87%) SAP
4 62 (2.40%) Google
5 59 (2.28%) Salesforce
5 59 (2.28%) ServiceNow
6 57 (2.20%) Databricks
7 49 (1.89%) IBM
8 43 (1.66%) VMware
9 41 (1.58%) Splunk
10 35 (1.35%) Adobe
11 32 (1.24%) Cisco
12 29 (1.12%) Dell
13 25 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 19 (0.73%) Red Hat
15 17 (0.66%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.62%) Brocade
16 16 (0.62%) CA
17 15 (0.58%) Bloomberg
17 15 (0.58%) Remedy